The New Baby and Family Games in Acton
A family page discusses the arrival of a new baby and the children Rob and I care for the infant. They recall playing dress up, pretend battles, and singing tunes while neighbors scold them to be quiet. The narrator imagines rescuing the baby and shares a playful, affectionate tone. Eurabeth L Gould credits.
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Alster
Loika
Mammnu
Aunt Lou
Rob
Georgia
Mamma
Lou
Jane
Eurabeth L. Gould
Aunt Hulda's Good Time tale from The Free Press
Short story by L. Frank Baum appears in The Free Press under the byline ERPS POE PRC. The piece presents a humorous Aunt Hulda character enjoying a jovial domestic scene with light social satire.
Aunt Hulda and the Circus Plea on a Summer Afternoon
A rural scene unfolds as Aunt Hulda, aging yet spry, sits beneath a gnarled apple tree planning applesauce. A courteous bicyclist, charmed by the simple life, invites her to the circus, offering to fund the trip and help with chores, testing her resolve to stay home or join the unexpected outing.
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Hulda
Huldo
Jimé
Willige
Martin
Chase
Geo
Piebald
Anne
Toor
Rana
Mitchen
Boy and Aunt Hulda Share Circus Night Amid Village Curiosity
A homely Aunt Hulda and a resourceful boy escort her to a village circus. They enjoy tents and side-shows, share a ring-side box with Squire Meldrum, and the boy buys treats for her. Martin, Hulda’s husband, senses a mystery but accepts their happiness as they return home with warmth and a tender farewell.
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Agfaria
Neal
Aunt Hulda
Hulda
Squire Meldrum
Hula
Meldrum
Sartin
Martin
Hurdy
Gomez
Plo
Bala
Millbank
Atery
Midnight Ghost at St Stephen’s, Nora Tech’s Narrow Escape
Nora Tech fears ghosts and attends Stephen's reaper service alone. She sleeps in a dusky pew, then ventures to the church across the way for a missing music piece. A candlelit fright ends when a white figure falls, reveals a locked-in intruder, and neighbors laugh at the safe, shared explanation.
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Nora Tech
Nora
Stephen
St. Stephen's
Forcing Rhubarb in Warm Winters at Home
J. A. Clark of the Dominion Experimental Station explains winter forcing of rhubarb in a warm cellar. Select strong red plants, trim coarse roots, store clumps in exposed ground, then in cinder dirt in boxes with darkness. Maintain about 60 degrees, harvest stalks when 18 inches, then replace with outside stocks. plants resume garden growth after 2–3 seasons.
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J. A. Clark
Dominion Experimental Station
Charlottetown
Roosevelt's West Tour Caldron of Cheer and Cowboy Wit
While visiting western towns President Roosevelt enjoyed local entertainments and public holidays. A cowboy rider faced a volatile mount, impressing the president with his control. Asked if he rode constantly the rider replied he stops for meals.
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Roosevelt
Memorial of a Literary Celebrity Inscribed by a Boston Herald
The Boston Herald reported a memorial crane for a literary figure from Massachusetts. A sentiment on the memorial read Light of my Life has gone out. The late Bishop Wilster of Alabama addressed a friend with words from scripture.
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Adys
Boston Herald
Maauachueotte
Wilster
Alabama
Night Departure After Mother's Tender Farewell
A fragment describes a woman embracing a man and offering a motherly good night. He mounts his bicycle and rides away down a road as her watchful gaze lingers until his distant wheels fade into darkness.
The Scotch Royal Insignia And Their Storied Past
During a visit to Scotland last summer the editor viewed the ancient royal regalia of Scotland in a guarded room overlooking Edinburgh. The crown of Robert the Bruce and the regalia associated with James V and Charles II carry a dramatic history of hiding, torture, and eventual restoration. The regalia were buried to protect them from Cromwell's forces, later found by Sir Walter Scott's commission, and since then have symbolized Scotland's days of freedom and power.
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Scotland
Edinburgh
England
Robert, the Bruce
Bannockburn
James V
Charles T
Ogilvy
Castle Dunnottar
Crowmell
Charles II
Sir Walter Scott
Absurd English in Continental Hotel Notices Across Europe
A critique notes humorous English errors in Continental hotel signage from Switzerland to the Jura and the Alps. It cites ill phrased promises about aut repairs, wine vaults, and solitary retreats, contrasting with local schoolboy French and German phrase slips.
Kathleen Mavoureen loan referenced in street tale
A tale told of a financially strapped musician who charms a friend into a doorway to borrow 25 dollars. When asked about repayment, he jokes the loan could last a Kathleen Mavoureen era or even forever, highlighting his wry cleverness.
Prussian Colors Mistaken as Spy Alarm During Siege
During the siege of Paris the national guards hunted supposed German spies. A house in the Rue Lafayette was surrounded after red curtains and a green lamp shade were misread as flags. A young soldier stopped the raid when the alleged spy demonstrated innocence by cooking his supper.
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Paris
Tracht
Lafayette
Leutenant
Ias Inocent
Roosevelt Fetches Red Cross Supplies In Cuba Jungle
A Red Cross tale from Miss C Barton’s Shosaya recalls an officer in Khaki and a sun protection bandana asking to buy relief goods for his men. Colonel Roosevelt refused to buy but asked for a list of needed items malted milk condensed milk oats corn meal canned fruit dried fruit rice tea chocolate beefsteak and vegetables and carried a sack of supplies into the jungle.
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Red Cross
Cuba
Society
Miss C. Barton
Shosaya
Roosevelt
Satk
Alfalfa Leaves Boost Egg Laying in Pullets at Brandon Farm
An experiment at Brandon Experimental Farm tested supplements with a standard ration for 62 days. Pullets fed alfalfa leaves laid 26.9 eggs on average, versus 22.9 with mangels and 20.1 with meat and mangels, showing higher profit and 10.8 cents per pound value in winter feed.
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Brandon
Feeding dairy cows with ensilage beats mangels at Agassiz farm
At the Agassiz Experimental Farm in British Columbia a trial fed cows ten pounds daily of a grain mix plus ten pounds of alfalfa hay and fifty pounds of ensilage or mangels. Cattle on ensilage produced about two more pounds of milk per day and lower costs, $1.28 per hundred pounds of milk versus $1.55 with mangels.
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Agassiz
B. C
Maangela
Back Door Pedlar Plays Tactful Pitch in Walnut Hills
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune note describes a back door pedlar in Walnut Hills who uses tact to survive. He knocks timidly at a door one morning as a domestic complains during washing and the man, with a shy grin, asks if she wants anything, narrowly avoiding conflict.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Walnut Hills
Editor seeks wedding details but couple departs town
The editor of a California journal sought wedding details from the bride’s family at their home the day after the ceremony. The bride’s mother, surprised, said guests had eaten every scrap and left no more information behind.
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California
Saya
San Francisco Bulletin
Jonoa
Bank Error Sparks Rigid Policy Clash
A tradesman complained after his boy returned an incorrect amount from a bank withdrawal. The cashier insisted no corrections are ever made, prompting a heated exchange about handling mistakes and the bank’s strict rules.
Rheumatic pains vanish with Rheuma remedy claim
An advertisement touts Rheuma as a cure for rheumatism gout neuritis lumbago and neuraglia promising rapid relief and restored joint function. It claims the drug purges poisons from the body and improves digestion liver kidneys and bladder with a money back guarantee through H J Hayward and other druggists.
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Da¢Y
H.J. Hayward
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